Dylan Documentary: What Would You Ask?

Subject: RE: Dylan Documentary: What Would You Ask?
From: Clinton Hammond
Date: 21 May 03 - 05:11 PM

only I hope he'd spell "replied" correctly!

LOL

Subject: RE: Dylan Documentary: What Would You Ask?
From: Clinton Hammond
Date: 21 May 03 - 05:09 PM

To which I'd like to hope he reliped, "Who told you anybody needed to ask for permission to sing?"

Subject: RE: Dylan Documentary: What Would You Ask?
From: TheBigPinkLad
Date: 21 May 03 - 04:23 PM

Who told you you could sing?

Subject: RE: Dylan Documentary: What Would You Ask?
From: Clinton Hammond
Date: 21 May 03 - 02:30 PM

I really do like "Sweetheart Like You" off the album Infidels....

;-)

Subject: RE: Dylan Documentary: What Would You Ask?
From: Little Hawk
Date: 21 May 03 - 02:28 PM

I would ask him what he would like to talk about, and just let him take it from there...anywhere he wanted to.

I agree that his songs about the inner person...such as "It's Allright, Ma", "Gates of Eden", and "Jokerman" for three examples...are the best and most extraordinary pieces of writing in the history of modern verse. As for the blues, "Blind Willie McTell" is the greatest blues recording ever made, in my opinion. (And he didn't put it on the album "Infidels"!)

- LH

Subject: RE: Dylan Documentary: What Would You Ask?
From: Clinton Hammond
Date: 21 May 03 - 02:13 PM

What woudl -I- ask???

"Bob... Would you please... just stop?"

Subject: RE: Dylan Documentary: What Would You Ask?
From: Mark Clark
Date: 21 May 03 - 02:13 PM

Yeah, ask him what happened to Blind Boy Grunt and why Grunt's records aren't available anymore.

      - Mark

Subject: RE: Dylan Documentary: What Would You Ask?
From: Steve Latimer
Date: 21 May 03 - 02:07 PM

Guest,

I'm sure that's one that he would love to field.

Subject: RE: Dylan Documentary: What Would You Ask?
From: GUEST
Date: 21 May 03 - 12:56 PM

would ask him why he's such an egotistical wanker.

Subject: RE: Dylan Documentary: What Would You Ask?
From: alanabit
Date: 21 May 03 - 10:43 AM

Just wait until Little Hawk sees this thread Peter! I think I would like to ask Dylan what motivated him to become the first - and easily the best - proponent of a new genre of song - the psychological song. In songs like Ballad of a Thin Man and It's Alright Ma, he took on the themes of serious novelists. I have always thought that these painstaking descriptions of people's inner life are his greatest achievement. They often mistaken for songs of angst riden self obseession - and imitated horribly.

Subject: Dylan Documentary: What Would You Ask?
From: Peter T.
Date: 21 May 03 - 08:42 AM

Just announced that Dylan is going to be the subject of a BBC documentary/interview with Martin Scorcese, reflecting on his life in the 60s, and who knows, maybe after. If you had a chance to submit a question, what would it be?


I would like to know: (1) Who taught him about open tunings? (2) Does he still read Rimbaud? (3) What possesses him to wreck some of his most beautiful songs with crap rewritings?

yours, Peter T.